English Word-based analysis

Home Keys Analysis

The Home Keys for this layout are shown with red dots in the image above, giving the following letters:

aeinorst

Home key bigrams, trigrams, quadgrams and common words

Scores are based on which fingers are used for the top 20 bigrams, trigrams and quadgrams, and top 30 common words, with the scores
weighted by strength of finger used, and frequency of occurance of the text.

Metric

Rank

Weighted score

Components handled and not handled

Bigrams

172

49.49 / 90.17

in er an re on en at to or it is es th he nd ou ed ha hi ng

Trigrams

258

6.82 / 39.68

ere ent ion ter tio the and ing her hat his tha for was you ith ver all wit thi

Quadgrams

271

1.7 / 15.88

tion atio that ther with here ould ight have hich whic this thin they ever from ough were hing ment

Common words

271

28.13 / 84.45

to a in is on it as at are an not or the of and for that was with he his by be from this I but have has they

Home Key letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

ostnreai

3362

18

transistorisations

Word count

Word length

Easyblock Analysis

The typical Easyblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Easyblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

cCdDuUjJsStTnNrReEaApP

7457

17

transparentnesses

Word count

Word length

Homeblock Analysis

The typical Homeblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Homeblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

cCdDfFwWuUjJsStTnNrReEaAgGmMpPqQ

16337

17

transparentnesses

Word count

Word length

Angle Mod Homeblock Analysis

The typical Angle Mod Homeblock Keys for this layout form factor are shown here:

Angle mod Homeblock letters

English words typeable

Longest word

Example

cCdDfFwWuUjJsStTnNrReEaAgGmMqQ

12448

17

understatednesses

Word count

Word length

One-handed words Analysis

This looks at how many words can be typed with only left or right hand. We want these numbers to be low.
This metric was done "strictly" ... shifted or AltGr letters were only included if Shift or AltGr was on the same hand.
Note: we exclude the Dvorak one-handed layouts comparison, since clearly by design they can type every possible word with one hand.

Left hand letters

Left words

Longest left word

Left example

Right hand letters

Right words

Longest right word

Right example

Total

kKcCdDfFbBoOsStTnNhHgGmMpPzZ

1534

12

monophthongs

vVwWuUjJxXlLrReEaAiIyYqQ

1172

11

Laurelville

2706

Left hand

Right hand

Word count

Word length

Word length

SameFinger Bigrams

This is a weighted analysis of same-finger usage.

The probability that a letter will follow another given letter
is used to evaluate layouts by which letters pairs are on the same fingers. We multiply this figure by the percentage frequency of the first letter, in English.
We add the probabilities in both directions, for example "er" and "re".

There are some exceptions: We only look at lower case, and if the second letter is on the same key as the first, we ignore that pair.

The idea is to see how much a finger has to fly around, and if the two letters are on the same key (as in the split-case layouts) then it doesn't
have to fly between them.

The metric does not measure how far the finger has to fly, just that it has to. I'll look at adding distance, row jumps, inward rolls, outward rolls, to this metric if possible.

Finger

Letters

Score

Left pinky

'ko'

9.1476

Left ring

'csg'

16.6922

Left middle

'dtm'

3.3344

Left index

'fbnhpz'

13.8009

Left thumb

'⍽'

0

Right thumb

''

0

Right index

'vwlr'

22.1768

Right middle

'ue'

10.4706

Right ring

'jaq'

3.9292

Right pinky

'xiy'

6.3932

Both thumbs

''

0

Total

85.94

Word metric comparisons

Metric

Lowest

Lowest score

sorenk.en.ansi score

Highest

Highest score

Home keys

abcdef.en.ansi

3

3362

essie-2.en.matrix

174012

Easyblock

qwerty-rehomed.en.ansi

100

7457

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

189738

Homeblock

qwerty-typewriter.en.ansi

1562

16337

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

273265

Angle mod Homeblock

alphametric.en.ansi

1354

12448

essie-3-wip.en.ergolinear

273265

Left hand words

qgmlwy.en.ergolinear

34

1534

tnwmlc.en.ansi

22157

Right hand words

essie-3.en.ergolinear

26

1172

reverse-qwerty.en.ansi

14771

Total single handed

essie-3.en.ergolinear

158

2706

tnwmlc.en.ansi

22301

Average single handed

essie-3.en.ergolinear

79

1353

tnwmlc.en.ansi

11150.5

Same finger bigrams

seelpy-1.en.ergolinear

8.01

85.94

mcgunnigle-peoples.en.ansi

1757.11

Fraser Street analysis

"Fraser Street" (thanks Shai) is a specially-crafted text in which most of the words are typed with only the left hand, on the QWERTY layout.
It was designed to highlight how much better the Dvorak layout is at hand alternation.
We ignore spaces and punctuation.

Few vegetated inFraser Street.Nobody wastedtime abed."Actstestthe breed," was ever the sacred adage. Variedcrafts andtrades were represented.There was a caterer, a barber, a weaver, a cabaret, and a garage. Attracted, we startedtosee several scenes. We were greeted asfriends.

The barber cateredto a variedtrade, representingdiverse careers anddifferentcreeds.Saturday drew the bestcrowd. All were seated, relaxed, aware offewer cares, lessfagged.There we saw a few starvedtatteredbeggars whobraggedof"bracers"served atcafes after a wee meal ofbeefstew andcabbage. A better fare was reservedfor those rearedon earth'sgreater awards.

Fraser Street summary

Left letters typed

381

Right letters typed

500

Needs both hands

0

Total letters typed

881

Switches

443

Hand balance

43.25 : 0.00 : 56.75

Typing lessons

Download some English words suitable for learning the layout.
Note if any files are empty it's because there are not enough words to create a lesson. This is most noticeable in the bad layouts.